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		<title>Hagel Orders Review of Sex-Abuse Prevention</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/05/17/hagel-orders-review-of-sex-abuse-prevention/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 20:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(WASHINGTON) — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Friday ordered the military to recertify every person involved in programs designed to prevent and respond to sexual assault, an acknowledgement that assaults have escalated beyond the Pentagon&#8217;s control. He said this step is one among many that will be taken to fix the problem of sexual abuse and sexual harassment within every branch of the military. At a news conference with Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Hagel said he believes alcohol use is &#8220;a very big factor&#8221; in many sexual assault and sexual harassment cases, but there are many pieces to the problem. Hagel said it has become clear to him since taking office in February that holding people accountable for their actions is important, but simply firing people is not a solution. &#8220;Who are you going to fire?&#8221; he asked. A catalyst for congressional outrage has been the disclosure in recent days of at least two cases in which a military member with responsibility for sexual assault prevention programs has himself been accused of sexual misconduct. Earlier Friday, the Air Force&#8217;s top general said that sexual assaults in his branch of the military typically involve alcohol use and can be traced to a lack of respect for women. &#8220;We have a problem with respect for women that leads to many of the situations that result in sexual assault in our Air Force,&#8221; Gen. Mark Welsh told reporters in a lengthy interview in his Pentagon offices. He spoke one day after he and other military leaders were summoned to the White House to discuss the sexual assault problem with President Barack Obama, who has expressed impatience with the Pentagon&#8217;s failure to solve it. Welsh said combatting the problem, which he characterized as a crisis, is his No. 1 priority as the Air Force chief of staff. He said he reviews every reported case of sexual assault; last year there were 792 in the Air Force. (MORE: A Female Soldier Tells Her Tragic Tale of Abuse) Welsh addressed criticism<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=95984&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TIME&#8217;s Mark Thompson on Obama&#8217;s Defense Secretary Debacle</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/02/15/mark-thompson-on-obamas-defense-secretary-debacle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:37:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TIME Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PBS NewsHour invited TIME&#8217;s Mark Thompson to explain President Obama&#8217;s Defense Secretary debacle.  Yesterday, Chuck Hagel&#8217;s nomination was delayed when Senate Republicans called for a filibuster.  Outgoing secretary Leon Panetta, due to leave his post February 14th, will stay until his successor is confirmed.   Thompson joined Margaret Warner of PBS and Public Radio International&#8217;s Todd Zwillich.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=88196&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>With GOP Filibuster, Chuck Hagel&#8217;s Rocky Road Continues</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/02/15/with-gop-filibuster-chuck-hagels-rocky-road-continues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 10:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Newton-Small</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Senate Republicans filibustered President Barack Obama’s nominee to be the next Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel, by a razor thin vote of 58-39 Thursday, with one senator voting present. But all hope for Hagel is not lost. Just because they still want more time to debate their former Republican colleague’s nomination, doesn’t mean that Hagel’s confirmation is dead. At least three Republican senators – John McCain, Lindsey Graham and Richard Burr – said that they simply want more time and intend to vote for cloture – a parliamentary procedure that ends a filibuster by limiting debate to 30 hours that requires a supermajority of 60 votes – when the Senate returns from recess the week of Feb. 25. “I will oppose cloture because debate should continue and when we get back – unless there is a bombshell – I’ll vote for cloture and move on to his nomination,” Graham said on the floor of the Senate on Thursday. (MORE: Hagel’s Hearing: Profoundly Depressing) The key in Graham’s statement is the “bombshell.” Republicans still hoping to kill Hagel’s nomination will surely spend the next week combing over his past speeches looking for just that. Senator Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican, has been demanding that Hagel disclose more information about the speeches he’s given since leaving office in 2009. One potential hurdle seemed to emerge early Thursday in reports that Hagel at one time called the State Department “an adjunct to the Israeli Foreign Minister’s office” in a 2007 speech at Rutgers University. Jewish groups immediately called on Hagel to explain himself. But the biggest challenge to Hagel’s confirmation has had little to do with his fitness for the job but with McCain and Graham’s demand that the White House provide more documents on the Sept. 11 Benghazi attack. The duo said earlier Thursday that they would filibuster Hagel until the White House produced those documents. After the Administration responded, the senators said they were mollified. “&#8221;I think it was an adequate response, yes,&#8221; McCain told reporters on Capitol Hill. &#8220;We are<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=88174&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Both Barrels</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2013/02/07/both-barrels/</link>
		<comments>http://nation.time.com/2013/02/07/both-barrels/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<title>COIN and Change</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/02/07/coin-and-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 14:23:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Klein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My latest print column: John McCain&#8217;s ugly cross-examination of Chuck Hagel raised some larger questions about US policy.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=87506&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Whatever Floats Your Bloat By George!</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2013/01/18/whatever-floats-your-bloat-by-george/</link>
		<comments>http://nation.time.com/2013/01/18/whatever-floats-your-bloat-by-george/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 15:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<title>Defense Secretary Panetta Sounds Alarm on Cyberwar Threat</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/10/12/panetta-sounds-alarm-on-cyber-war-threat/</link>
		<comments>http://nation.time.com/2012/10/12/panetta-sounds-alarm-on-cyber-war-threat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2012 14:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Defense Secretary Leon Panetta issued what he said is a “clarion call” Thursday for Americans to wake up to the growing threat posed by cyber war. “The whole point of this is that we simply don’t just sit back and wait for a goddamn crisis to happen,” Panetta told Time. “In this country we tend to do that, and that’s a concern.”<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=79934&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Grim Record: Soldier Suicides Reach New High</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/08/16/grim-record-soldier-suicides-reach-new-high/</link>
		<comments>http://nation.time.com/2012/08/16/grim-record-soldier-suicides-reach-new-high/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:11:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A record number of soldiers – 38 – are suspected of killing themselves in July, the Pentagon said Thursday. It marks a startling jump in the suicide epidemic that has been frustrating Army leaders for years.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=75978&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are We at a &#8216;Tipping Point&#8217; in Afghanistan?</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/02/28/tipping-point/</link>
		<comments>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/02/28/tipping-point/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So just how close to the tipping point – that’s the phase heard most over the past several days – is the U.S.-led military mission in Afghanistan? Not close, according to the Obama Administration. Remember, this was the “good war” – justifiable in 9/11′s wake, unlike the invasion of Iraq two years later. So Administration officials were peddling it that way on Monday, following a week of riots and the killing of four U.S. troops after American soldiers at Bagram apparently mistakenly tossed Korans into a trash fire.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=66678&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Leon the Lip&#8217;: Defense Secretary Panetta&#8217;s Candid Approach to Politics</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/02/23/leon-the-lip/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leon Panetta first ran afoul of a president when he was a lowly federal staffer more than 40 years ago. The president was Richard Nixon, who didn’t like the way Panetta, then a civil-rights advocate at the old Department of Health, Education and Welfare, pressed the Administration to speed up school integration. Panetta resigned, moved back to California and ran for Congress. Nixon’s own Oval Office tapes captured him describing Panetta’s resulting 1971 book on the experience, Bring Us Together, as “a case history on how to screw the White House.” Now, after a dazzling career that has taken him from the Capitol, to the White House, to his current post running the U.S. military, he finds himself in — and out — of hot water once again.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=66421&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Proposed 2013 Defense Budget: &#8216;Shaving the Balloon&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/02/14/the-proposed-2013-defense-budget-shaving-the-balloon/</link>
		<comments>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/02/14/the-proposed-2013-defense-budget-shaving-the-balloon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:32:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Budgets]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Obama Administration came to a fork in the road this year on military spending: given the financial pressures facing the nation, it could have fundamentally set U.S. defense policy on a new path. Or it could have kept pretty much everything and just sucked it in as it tightened its belt. It has elected to do the latter, and that’s not surprising.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=65842&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reduced U.S. Role in Afghanistan: Politics, By Other Means</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/02/02/reduced-u-s-role-in-afghanistan-politics-by-other-means/</link>
		<comments>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/02/02/reduced-u-s-role-in-afghanistan-politics-by-other-means/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[War]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s statement Wednesday that the U.S. plans to hand off all combat missions in Afghanistan sometime in 2013 has triggered howls from hawks who maintain it’s a step down a slippery slope headed to defeat. They may have a point. Nonetheless, the Obama Administration has plainly decided that its goals are better served by a calendar-driven pullout from Afghanistan.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=65158&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Defense Strategy: Why Wait for the Details?</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/01/09/new-defense-strategy-why-wait-for-the-details/</link>
		<comments>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/01/09/new-defense-strategy-why-wait-for-the-details/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:24:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may recall Battleland’s advisory last week that it was too early to conclude whether the Obama Administration’s new Pentagon strategy makes sense. That’s because the devil is in the details, and they won’t be known for another month – when the Defense Department unveils its 2013 budget. But when you’re an editorial writer with an itchy trigger finger writing for a major newspaper, sometimes you can’t wait for pesky details and other assorted facts. As Detective Joe Friday might phrase it today: Just the spin.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=62999&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tomorrow’s Pentagon: Doing Less, With More</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/01/05/tomorrows-pentagon-doing-less-with-more/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 12:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta unveiled a new military strategy Thursday: the Pentagon of the future, they made clear, will be doing less with more. “Over the next 10 years, the growth in the defense budget will slow, but the fact of the matter is this: It will still grow, because we have global responsibilities that demand our leadership,” Obama said in a briefing from the Pentagon podium, flanked by the nation’s top 12 military leaders. “In fact, the defense budget will still be larger than it was toward the end of the Bush administration.”<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=62808&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Changing of the Guard: National Guard Joins Joint Chiefs</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/01/04/the-changing-of-the-guard/</link>
		<comments>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/01/04/the-changing-of-the-guard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I would never want to belong to any club that would have someone like me for a member. The sentiment is usually attributed to Groucho Marx, but as of this week it works for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, too. That’s because when President Obama signed the 2012 defense bill on New Year’s Eve, the new law ordered Air Force General Craig McKinley, head of the National Guard Bureau, to join the nation’s six top military officers as a full-fledged member of the Joint Chiefs (the other members are the chairman and vice chairman, who the President taps from among the four military services, plus the Army and Air Force chiefs, the chief of naval operations, and the Marine commandant).<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=62629&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Pentagon&#8217;s No. 3 Departs</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2011/12/14/michele-flournoy-departs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:29:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If Michèle Flournoy were a man, no one outside of nerdy defense circles would have noted her announcement Monday that she will be leaving the Pentagon’s No. 3 post – the under secretary of defense for policy – come February. And no one – not even the dweebiest of defense dweebs – would care that she has three kids, ages 9, 12 and 14, and that for the past three years she has held one of the Pentagon’s most bruising, demanding jobs.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=61413&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>War (un)Planning: Pentagon Unready for Supercommittee Defense Cuts</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2011/11/21/war-unplanning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can always tell the rookie Pentagon reporter. He, or she, is the one who whispers: &#8220;They told me they&#8217;re planning for war with Iran!&#8221; That&#8217;s when the vets around the building have to say: &#8220;They&#8217;ve been doing that for decades. Somewhere along these 17 miles of corridors, they have plans for everything.&#8221; At least until last Friday. That&#8217;s when I read a startling claim in Defense News: The U.S. Defense Department is still not planning for more than $600 billion in additional cuts that could be levied should a congressional panel not reach a consensus on a plan to cut federal spending by next week, according to the Pentagon&#8217;s No. 2 budget official.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=60041&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>#TIMEVets: Read the Transcript of TIME&#8217;s Veterans Day Twitter Chat</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2011/11/11/timevets-read-the-transcript-of-times-veterans-day-twitter-chat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 21:53:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allie Townsend</dc:creator>
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		<title>&#8220;Is It Smart to Pull All U.S. Troops Out of Iraq by Year&#8217;s End?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2011/11/01/is-it-smart-to-pull-all-u-s-troops-out-of-iraq-by-years-end/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 13:45:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s one of the biggest – and potentially, most consequential – decisions President Obama has made (not that he had much choice, according to some). He has announced that the 45,000 U.S. troops still Iraq will all be home for the holidays. Critics have said Iraq is too fragile for the U.S. to pull out – after eight bloody years there – and that the President should have pressured the Iraqis to let several thousand remain into 2012. John Nagl, of the Center for a New American Security, and I debate the pluses and minuses of the pullout plan with Lawrence Korb, a Reagan-era Pentagon official now at the Center for American Progress, and Michael O’Hanlon, a military expert at the Brookings Institution.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=58876&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hard to Believe: The Ban on Gays in the Military Is Over</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2011/09/20/hard-to-believe/</link>
		<comments>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2011/09/20/hard-to-believe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Pentagon&#8217;s &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell&#8221; policy dies today. It&#8217;s an obit I never thought I&#8217;d write. It hardly seems possible &#8212; as one who covered the debate for close to two decades &#8212; that the ban on openly gay men and women serving in uniform is passing into the pages of history. What will military reporters bored with hardware and budget stories write about for the next 20 years?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=56366&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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